Talk:Grudziądz/Archives/2022/February

NPOV

Even from the most benevolent point of view, about 50% of the article deals with how evil nearly everything German is.

There is hardly a sentence in which Poles are not conceived of as the oppressed, albeit "genuine" inhabitants of the city. Not a word in the article talks about the fact that the the majority German people of the city were deprived of the opportunity to vote on their own future after WWI (such as in East Prussia or Upper Silesia). Even if one assumes that the region was partly polonized, this does not justify an article that reads like a plea for volkish politics, because of a supposedly ancient Polish population ("reintegrated" etc). According to this, Germany has a legitimate claim to "reintegrate"/"regermanize" ancient German-speaking territories of Belgium and northern France or the whole of Poland (cf. East-Germanic settlements)? Why is this legitimized in the context of Poland, more spoecifically former Order land?

Some of the rhetoric is telling: Prussia "annexes" the majority German Order city, Poland "reintegrates" it. The extensive dismissal of German civil servants and teachers from their jobs after the corridor was given to Poland remains unmentioned. On the contrary, the ensuing emigration wave is concealed as the consequence of "economic conditions".

What relevance (apart from the anti-German sentiment) does the anecdote about a German schoolgirl writing revisionist sentences in her textbook have in an article about the town of Grudziądz?

With all due respect, the text reminds me of the sinister propaganda in former communist Poland. It reads like an unbalanced apology of an uncritical Polonization, minority and expulsion policy, which could have been written by a German nationalist in the 1930s - under the opposite circumstances. As such, the article joins the nationalistic tenor of apparently Polish nationalistic authors on Wikipedia, who in countless articles about formerly disputed territories extol Polishness and belittle the country's multicultural heritage, be it in regard to German, Ukrainian, Belorussian fringe areas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hannsg.logitech (talk • contribs) 16:54, 1 February 2022 (UTC)